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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOC, post: 1873503, member: 58941&quot;]We metal detectorists love these too!</p><p>I have found 5 in three years and my son 1, my dad has 4 to his credit also....</p><p>They are a lovely loud signal at any depth, but unless found in pasture or soft loamy wet soil they often come out corroded by fertilisers....</p><p>I shudder at the number of roman coins rotting away nowadays far faster than they would have done in previous years due to intensive farming practice and modern fertilisers.....One farmer I asked for permission from (his land runs up to Stonehenge) and contains over 40 Barrows...said he would rather coins and artefacts stay in the ground; little does he know they are all slowly succumbing to the effects of his fertilisers and will be of no benefit to historians in ten years time....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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